About Crowdcast
Crowdcast is a live video platform designed to help creators and businesses to streamline processes related to interviews, webinars, workshops, audience engagement and more. It lets users invite co-hosts or guests, receive questions from attendees, timestamp answers and add multiple people on a single screen.
Crowdcast allows businesses to customize landing page URLs by adding images, videos, or other content and capture leads through built-in registration or landing pages. It helps creators manage private, paid, multi-session, recurring, or large-scale events, limit seats, and accept payments via Stripe integration. Plus, creators can use the screen share functionality to share presentations, demos, and other multimedia files with audiences and manage chat controls including deleting comments, inviting people to events, or viewing attendee profiles.
Crowdcast connects with Zapier to facilitate integration with various third-party marketing, eCommerce, or communication platforms such as Slack, Gmail, Mailchimp, Klaviyo and more. It lets users engage with audiences via live Q&As, polls, or chat, share moments across social media platforms, and create embedded links for various events. Crowdcast also allows professionals to track referrals, registrations, or signups and export data such as attendee names, poll answers, emails, and more into CSV format.
Pricing starting from:
US$29,00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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English
Pricing starting from:
US$29,00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Crowdcast
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Total features of Crowdcast: 38
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- Industry: Translation & Localization
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
The absolute best webinar platform in the galaxy
Reviewed on 2019/07/19
We hosted over a hundred webinars on Crowdcast and every single one of them was absolutely amazing....
We hosted over a hundred webinars on Crowdcast and every single one of them was absolutely amazing. Can't wait to start recording the next season of our webinar series.
Pros
If I was to pick one thing I'd say it's the way the platform is built. They built great foundation from the very beginning and continue to add to features and functionality that makes this platform absolutely amazing for anyone who needs to host webinars or online conferences. The possibilities are endless with Crowdcast.
Cons
It's price is a bit too high for small business or entrepreneurs. I wish they had better pricing model as for now it targets bigger podcasts and content creators.
Reasons for Choosing Crowdcast
The previous platform that we used was shut down and we had to use Crowdcast instead.Reasons for Switching to Crowdcast
User experience and functionality. Crowdcast seems to be doing something that is much simpler yet more powerful.
- Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A fresh, new way to do webinars
Reviewed on 2019/01/14
Crowdcast has been our go-to product for live online events for the past 3 years. We connect with...
Crowdcast has been our go-to product for live online events for the past 3 years. We connect with our audiences in many different of type of events online - from webinars, to Ask Me Anything sessions. The authentic way that we can connect with them on Crowdcast really helps us build relationships and help them out.
Pros
Crowdcast is a fresh looking platform and very interactive. It is an easier and better way to interact with users online, versus traditional "webinar" platforms and systems. It has functions that really help you engage with your audiences, and also helps them interact with each other. The event functions like submitting questions and chat box area really helps bring the events to life and makes them fun.
Cons
I've found that for guest speakers who may not be "tech-savvy" sometimes have issues logging on or understanding how to use the product. Usually once trained, it's smooth. Only other downfall is needing to make sure what browser you are on since it cannot function in Safari, and we have a lot of Apple users.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
my crowdcast disaster
Reviewed on 2019/02/11
We attempted to host a Facebook Advertising Summit event via crowdcast, on january 24th, there were...
We attempted to host a Facebook Advertising Summit event via crowdcast, on january 24th, there were around 14k sign ups with maybe 3k live attendees (we will never know the full number though, since crowdcast was down). It was a major event that our team spent a lot of time and effort to prepare. Immediately we were inundated with over a thousand support requests of users complaining that crowdcast was frozen. Approximately 25% of our sales resulted in returns due to technical issues with crowdcast. Users were very angry for having blocked off their day to access this content, but it wasn't streaming at all. Major issues persisted for the entire day, randomly booting users off the platform, and was overall a spectacular failure. If you have an important company event you are working on, and if you are OK with being completely sabotaged by crowdcast, then i suppose this is the software for you.
Pros
there was nothing remarkable about this software other than a shocking number of bugs, horrible product instability issues, and an unapologetic CEO who seems to be oblivious to these and other serious issues.
Cons
crowdcast is extremely buggy. According to correspondence with Crowdcast's CEO, their database "locks up" from time to time when lots of people try to sign in, which makes it so that nobody can watch the live event. This seems like a pretty huge design flaw given that the purpose of this software is to host events with a few thousand people. We tried to stream our live event through this platform and received thousands of user complaints saying they couldn't access the livestream to the event. This software is supposed to do one thing (live casting of a video stream to thousands of people) and it fails miserably at doing that one thing.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easiest webinar software out there
Reviewed on 2019/01/29
Overwhelmingly positive. The team is responsive and helpful, and even fun to work with. I do weekly...
Overwhelmingly positive. The team is responsive and helpful, and even fun to work with. I do weekly broadcasts with my students, and occasionally a webinar with 1,000+ attendees. Always works like a charm for me.
Pros
I've used any number of competing webinar products. Crowdcast is the easiest to use of all of them. The ability to easily simul-cast to Facebook and Youtube is a big plus, but the best part is that it just works in your browser. There's nothing to download unless you are going to broadcast.
I have an audience of technophobes and Luddites, and even they like it.
Cons
I wish there were more directly built-in integrations, especially with Infusionsoft, but Zapier makes that work.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy streaming software
Reviewed on 2019/01/29
Crowdcast solves the need for a live broadcasting software that can handle a daily live experience...
Crowdcast solves the need for a live broadcasting software that can handle a daily live experience with little to no problems.
Pros
I manage a daily live show via Crowdcast that streams to Facebook and YouTube.
Crowdcast makes it incredibly easy to have several different hosts and technical people creating the shows.
Cons
No microphone input availability to use headphones on the software itself. It’s really irritating to have to adjust chrome setting every time.
Crowdcast FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Crowdcast.Q. What type of pricing plans does Crowdcast offer?
Crowdcast offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$29,00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Crowdcast is offered across four pricing plans, outlined below. A 14 day free trial is available. Starter: $29/month (billed monthly) or $20/month (billed annually) Lite: $49/month (billed monthly) or $34/month (billed annually) Pro: $89/month (billed monthly) or $62/month (billed annually) Business: $195/month (billed monthly) or $139/month (billed annually)
Q. Who are the typical users of Crowdcast?
Crowdcast has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001-5 000
Q. What languages does Crowdcast support?
Crowdcast supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Crowdcast support mobile devices?
Crowdcast supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Crowdcast integrate with?
Crowdcast integrates with the following applications:
AWeber, ActiveCampaign, Airtable, ClickFunnels, ConvertKit, Drip, Dropbox Business, Eventbrite, Gmail, Google Analytics 360, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Instagram, Instapage, Intercom, Kajabi, Kartra, Keap, Klaviyo, Leadpages, LinkedIn for Business, Mailchimp, MailerLite, Mailshake, Marketo Engage, Microsoft Outlook, Ortto, Pardot, PayPal, Pipedrive, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Shopify, Simplero, Slack, Streak, Stripe, SurveyMonkey, Teachable, Twitter, Vimeo Pro, WooCommerce, WordPress, Zapier, Zendesk Sell, Zoho CRM, Zoom Meetings
Q. What level of support does Crowdcast offer?
Crowdcast offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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